Quotes with country-town

Quotes 681 till 700 of 817.

  • Byron Dorgan This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Boris Johnson This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh This is not the time to marry. My country is calling me. I have taken a vow to serve the country with my heart and soul.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Elbert Hubbard This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lord George Byron Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bainbridge Colby Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Ari Fleischer To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Edmund Burke To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Bruno Dumont To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Bill Haslam To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • George Burns Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • George Burns Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Henry Miller Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Gerald F. Lieberman Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.
    Gerald F. Lieberman
    American writer
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Trejo is one of the oldest boxing gyms in Cuba; it's outdoor, and every great champion the country has produced has passed through and was forged in the open air.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Arthur Keith Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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